Tesla mileage logging in Sweden: what Skatteverket actually wants
What the Swedish Tax Agency requires from a mileage log, and how to deliver it without thinking about it when you drive a Tesla.
Skatteverket, the Swedish Tax Agency, requires a mileage log to include date, time, odometer reading at start and stop, start and end location, purpose of the trip and the driver’s name. Miss any of those fields and a company Tesla risks being taxed as a personal benefit. For most drivers that is tens of thousands of kronor a year.
What the log must contain
For every trip:
- Date and time of departure and arrival
- Odometer reading at start and stop
- Address or location for start and end
- Purpose, if it is a business trip
- Driver name
It is not complicated. The hard part is doing it every day.
Why paper logs fall apart
Nobody writes things down after every stop. You drop off groceries, head into a meeting, pick up a kid. The odometer rarely gets read in the moment. Two weeks later, you are reconstructing last Monday from memory. That is where the mistakes creep in, and that is what an audit looks for.
What your Tesla already knows
The car has all the data Skatteverket wants. Odometer, position, timestamps, route. The only things missing are who drove, whether the purpose was business or personal, and a tamper-evident trail showing nothing was edited after the fact.
MPH DriveLog reads the trip data straight from the car, classifies trips against your geofence zones and rules, and builds the log to match reality. You review when you want, add notes where needed, and export a PDF that meets the requirements.
Questions auditors ask
“How do I know the trip was not edited after it happened?”
Every trip carries a hash-based signature from the moment it was logged. Changes show up in the audit trail. You cannot quietly erase evidence. That is the point.
“What counts as a business trip?”
Travel to your regular workplace is a commute, not a business trip. Travel to a client, supplier, meeting or training is business. You set the rules once and stop thinking about it.
A reasonable amount of discipline
There is nothing magical about an automatic mileage log. It is just automation of something that would otherwise take ten minutes a day. The difference is that it actually happens every day, and the record is complete when the year ends.
That is what MPH DriveLog does. Nothing more, nothing less.